SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

This final rule makes technical amendments to regulations in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). Part 201 of Title 9 of the CFR contains regulations that effectuate the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921 (7 U.S.C. 181 et seq.). 9 CFR 201 is divided into several sections that are currently grouped under undesignated center headings. AMS has determined that reorganizing the part into subparts and adding designated subpart headings will make the part more readable and facilitate future amendatory actions. Further, AMS is revising headings in part 201 to conform with nomenclature guidelines established by the Office of the Federal Register. This rule falls within a category of regulatory actions that the Office of Management and Budget exempted from Executive Order 12866 review.

The notice and comment requirements in the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) (5 U.S.C. 553) apply to rules as defined in 5 U.S.C. 551 (“the whole or a part of an agency statement of general or particular applicability and future effect designed to implement, interpret, or prescribe law or policy or describing the organization, procedure, or practice requirements of an agency and includes the approval or prescription for the future of rates, wages, corporate or financial structures or reorganizations thereof, prices, facilities, appliances, services or allowances therefor or of valuations, costs, or accounting, or practices bearing on any of the foregoing”). This final rule is limited to reorganizing Part 201 into subparts and adding designated subpart headings. It does not create new or amend existing requirements or interpretations. Thus, AMS has determined that this final rule is not a rule subject to the notice and comment requirements of 5 U.S.C. 553. Additionally, to the extent that this final rule is subject to this section, AMS has determined that there is good cause for making this technical amendment final without prior proposal and opportunity for comment because the revisions are not substantive and will have no impact on the regulatory requirements in the affected part. AMS has determined that public comment on such administrative changes is unnecessary and that there is good cause under the APA for proceeding with a final rule.

Further, because a notice of proposed rulemaking and opportunity for public comment are not required to be given for this rule under the APA or any other law, the analytical requirements of the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) are not applicable. Accordingly, this rule is issued in final form. Although there is no formal comment period, public comments on this rule are welcome on an ongoing basis. Comments should be submitted to the address or email under the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT caption.

For the reasons set forth in the preamble, AMS amends 9 CFR part 201 as follows:

1. The authority citation for part 201 continues to read as follows:

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 181-229c.

2. Revise the heading for part 201 to read as set forth above.

3. Remove the undesignated center heading before § 201.1 and add a heading for subpart A, consisting of §§ 201.1 through 201.2, in its place to read as follows:

4. Remove the undesignated center heading before § 201.3 and add a heading for subpart B, consisting of §§ 201.3 through 201.4, in its place to read as follows:

5. Remove the undesignated center heading before § 201.5 and add a heading for subpart C, consisting of § 201.5, in its place to read as follows:

6. Remove the undesignated center heading before § 201.10 and add a heading for subpart D, consisting of §§ 201.10 through 201.11, in its place to read as follows:

7. Remove the undesignated center heading before § 201.17 and add a heading for subpart E, consisting of § 201.17, in its place to read as follows:

8. Remove the undesignated center heading before § 201.27 and add a heading for subpart F, consisting of §§ 201.27 through 201.28, in its place to read as follows:

9. Remove the undesignated center heading before § 201.29 and add a ( printed page 11934) heading for subpart G, consisting of §§ 201.29 through 201.34, in its place to read as follows:

10. Remove the undesignated center heading before § 201.39 and add a heading for subpart H, consisting of §§ 201.39 through 201.42, in its place to read as follows:

11. Remove the undesignated center heading before § 201.43 and add a heading for subpart I, consisting of §§ 201.43 through 201.49, in its place to read as follows:

12. Remove the undesignated center heading before § 201.53 and add a heading for subpart J, consisting of §§ 201.53 through 201.70, in its place to read as follows:

13. Remove the undesignated center heading before § 201.71 and add a heading for subpart K, consisting of §§ 201.71 through 201.82, in its place to read as follows:

14. Remove the undesignated center heading before § 201.86 and add a heading for subpart L, consisting of §§ 201.86, in its place to read as follows:

15. Remove the undesignated center heading before § 201.94 and add a heading for subpart M, consisting of §§ 201.94 through 201.99, in its place to read as follows:

16. Remove the undesignated center heading before § 201.100 and add a heading for subpart N, consisting of §§ 201.100 through 201.218, in its place to read as follows:

87 FR 11933